Sunny Challenges & Creations 07/11

We have another great sketch this week at Sunny Challenges and Creations.  This one has been provided by Gwen and she doesn’t want us to use any stamping, except for the greeting.

I thought that this would be a little hard but eventually decided to use flowers as the focal points of interest.

I scored and folded a piece of Elegant Eggplant card for my base and set it aside.  I embossed a piece of Whisper White card using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, wrapped it with Certainly Celery 3/8″ Taffeta Ribbon and tied a knot.  To create my flower panels I cut Elegant Eggplant using the smallest scallop on the Scallop Square Duo Bigz Die.  I punched 1 3/8″ Squares from Whisper White card.  I used the Floral Fusion sizzlit to cut flowers from Perfect Plum card.  I cut one extra large flower for each floral panel.  I punched leaves from Certainly Celery card using the Two Step Bird punch.

I attached two leaves to two of the large flowers and four leaves to the last flower and then attached them to the 1 3/8″ Whisper White Squares.  They were then embossed using the Square Lattice Embossing Folder and attached to the Elegant Eggplant Scallop Squares.  I used my bone folder to curl the other flowers until I could separate each one into two layers.  The individual flowers were scrunched up tightly, opened and stacked onto a small Clear Rhinestone brad and then attached over the flower on the Whisper White 1 3/8″ square using Mini Glue Dots.  I arranged the panels so that the panel which had four leaves attached was in the middle and the other two were in the top left and bottom right corners.  I stamped “Happy Birthday” from the Create-A-Cupcake stampset onto Whisper White card using Perfect Plum ink and punched the greeting using the Word Window Punch.  I cut a piece of Certainly Celery card 1/2″ wide and rounded the ends using the 1/2″ circle punch and added it behind the greeting and then attached it to the front of the card.  The whole Whisper White panel was then attached to the folded Elegant Eggplant card.

Now you have seen my card, pop on over to Gwen & Vicky’s blogs to see their inspiration cards for this week.  Once you have made your card for the challenge visit Sunny Challenges and Creations and add your creation (card, scrapbook page or even 3D item) to Mr. Linky.

I am really looking forward to seeing some gorgeous work this week.

Bye for now, Kris.